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Opinion The impeachment process was win-win
On Wednesday afternoon, our national crisis came to an end as the impeachment saga finally drew to a close. It ended, as predicted, with the acquittal of President Trump in the Senate, with the votes split nearly along party lines. Republicans are boasting that the verdict is vindication for the President, and that these charges…
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Fast Forward 6 Jewish moments during Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union speech
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is now in overdrive, judging by the way he turned much of this year’s State of the Union into a campaign pitch. “We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back!” he said during the speech…
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Israel News Netanyahu, Gantz to meet with Trump on shadowy ‘deal of the century’ peace plan
The Israeli-Palestinian peace plan that will be unveiled at the White House on Tuesday, hailed by President Trump as the “Deal of the Century,” will allow Israel to extend sovereignty over most of its West Bank settlements in return for limited Palestinian autonomy, Haaretz reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz…
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Fast Forward Trump, Bloomberg And Bernie Condemn Monsey Attack
(JTA) — President Donald Trump called the attack at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, “horrific.” “The anti-Semitic attack in Monsey, New York, on the 7th night of Hanukkah last night is horrific,” Trump said Sunday afternoon in a tweet. “We must all come together to fight, confront, and eradicate the evil scourge of…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller Claims Anti-Semitism From Democrats Who Want Him Fired For His White Nationalist Views
JTA — White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hit back at accusations that he is a white supremacist. An investigation by the Southern Poverty Law Center based on hundreds of leaked emails from Miller showed that he pushed the conservative news website Breitbart to spread ideas from white nationalist websites. Left-wing Jewish groups have since…
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Fast Forward Trump Slams Jews Who ‘Don’t Love Israel Enough’ In Speech To Israeli-Americans
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (JTA) — President Donald Trump slammed American Jews who he said did not sufficiently “love Israel.” “So many of you voted for the people in the last administration. Some day you will have to explain that to me because I don’t think they like Israel too much,” the president said Saturday evening at…
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Israel News Trump’s Shift On Israeli Settlements Won’t Swing Skeptical Jews In 2020
The Trump administration on Monday made its latest policy move that doubled as a bid for Jewish and Evangelical Christian votes ahead of next year’s election, declaring that they would no longer consider Israeli settlements “inconsistent with international law.” Monday’s announcement followed the transfer of the American embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, and the…
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Fast Forward Parnas And Fruman Met With Trump During White House Hanukkah Party
(JTA) — Soviet-born businessmen Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman met with President Donald Trump during The White House’s annual Hanukkah party last year, CNN is reporting. The two men, associates of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are alleged to have been instrumental in pressuring the president of Ukraine to give Trump damaging information on political…
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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